Alumni

Accolades & Achievements

The University of Chicago Law School is proud to recognize noteworthy events in the lives of its alumni through the Accolades & Achievements Blog. Information is gathered from newspaper articles, press releases, and alumni submissions. The blog is updated periodically and is a complement to the Class Notes section of The Record, which is published semi-annually.

If you would like an event added to or removed from the blog, or to report any inaccuracies, please email Alison Coppelman, Director, Alumni Relations, at acoppelman@uchicago.edu.

You can filter these entries by keyword or class year below. Type "Yes" below if you would like to see alumni profiles that have been featured in our alumni magazine; you may also choose to profiles featured in a particular issue of the alumni magazine since 2008.

Julie Kunce Field, Class of 1985, was appointed as judge for the Colorado Eighth Judicial District by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter on January 1, 2011. Field has a background in mediation and arbitration, having worked most recently as a senior mediator through Colorado’s Larimer County Mediation since 2002.

Born in Mexico, Martinez moved to Chicago at age 3. After receiving his J.D. from the Law School in 1980 he joined the Legal Assistance Foundation, where he spent seven years representing indigent and working-class clients in landlord-tenant disputes, employment discrimination cases, unemployment benefit hearings and other legal matters.

The State Bar of California named Harry Sondheim, ’57, as the inaugural recipient of the award, which will bear Mr. Sondheim’s name. Created in 2010, the Harry B. Sondheim Professional Responsibility Award will be given every three years to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the development of attorney professional responsibility standards in the state of California.

Jonathan Mitchell, ’01, has been named Solicitor General of Texas by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Mitchell succeeds fellow alumnus of the Law School James C. Ho, ’99, who served as Solicitor General for close to three years.